Brodioptera cumberlandensis Copeland 1957 (winged insect)

Insecta - Megasecoptera - Brodiopteridae

Full reference: M. J. Copeland. 1957. The arthropod fauna of the Upper Carboniferous rocks of the Maritime Provinces. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 286:1-110

Belongs to Brodioptera according to F. M. Carpenter 1992

See also Carpenter 1963, Copeland 1957 and Durden 1984

Sister taxa: Brodioptera pintoi, Brodioptera sinensis, Brodioptera stricklani

Type specimen: GSC 10390, a wing. Its type locality is West Bay, Parrsboro, which is in a Westphalian A terrestrial siliciclastic in the Joggins Formation of Canada.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at West Bay, Parrsboro

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